Symantec takes the first step in successfully combating the ZeroAccess botnet by sinkholing more than half a million bots - making a serious dent to the number of bots under the attacker’s control. ZeroAccess is a sophisticated and resilient botnet, which has been active since 2011 and is one of the largest known botnets in existence – with upwards of 1.9 million infected computers on a given day as observed in August 2013. While 35 per cent of the infections were observed in the US, India had the third highest infection rate globally, just behind US and Japan. Nearly six per cent of ZeroAccess infections were observed in India.
